Pyze, a leading AI driven cross-platform analytics and engagement platform, announced the general availability of its latest Growth Intelligence Platform release featuring the most advanced cross channel analytics solution in the industry. The release also features customizable user dashboards, and a powerful new user interface.

In this contributed article, Senior Workforce Analyst Jessica Weaver, discusses why she sought to receive Certified Analytics Professional (CAP) designation from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). She sees it as more than three letters after her name; the value is in the process to become certified.

In this contributed article, Jeff Healey, Senior Director for Vertica at Micro Focus, discusses how there’s still time for leaders from traditional industries to modernize their aged data warehouses in becoming more data-driven. However, they face a serious threat of extinction from data-hungry disruptors born in the 21st century that base their decision-making on cloud-optimized analytical platforms with machine learning capabilities at scale.

I caught up with Thomas Been, CMO of TIBCO, at the recent TIBCO NOW 2018 conference in Las Vegas on September 4-6. Please read my Field Report for a detailed review of the event. We chatted about a whole gamut of topics including the company’s top level message and theme of the show, “Innovation at the Edge: Aligning Innovation Strategy with Business Strategy.”

Tableau Software, Inc. (NYSE: DATA), a leading analytics platform, today announced the general availability of Tableau 2018.2. This release introduces a new Extensions API that enables customers to drag and drop third party functionality directly into a dashboard. Publicly available extensions can be found in the new Extension Gallery at tableau.com/extensions.

SpotIQ AI-driven analytics automatically uncover answers to questions business people may not have known to ask. Powering SpotIQ is a new breed of analytics architecture and in-memory calculation engine that was built from the ground up for speed at scale on billions of rows of data across multiple data sources. Download the new white paper, courtesy of ThoughtSpot, that explores how with SpotIQ AI-drive analytics, you now have the power of a thousand analysts in your hand.

I recently caught up with Ashley Kramer, VP Product Management for Alteryx during the company’s Inspire 2018 conference in Anaheim, California, to get an update on her company’s direction. Alteryx is a leader in self-service data analytics, one of the fastest growing software markets.

In financial services, contracts often exist in highly dispersed formats, with jurisdictional complexities and risk aspects that change over time—resulting in high levels of risk. Download the new white paper from ADLIB to earn how to transform contracts into actionable, defensible assets with a robust contract intelligence solution.

Industry Perspectives

In this special guest feature, Amnon Drori, Co-founder and CEO of Octopai, discusses how for many organizations, GDPR may be the biggest data challenge they have ever faced – but it also provides organizations with an opportunity to truly own their data. By implementing a smart system that will ensure that they are able to find the data in their systems at will, organizations will ensure that they are GDPR-compliant – and have the opportunity to utilize all their data to help their organizations run more efficiently and profitably. [Read More...]

White Papers

Artificial intelligence and machine learning, based on widely available hardware and novel software techniques, give energy exploration companies the confidence to pinpoint drilling locations, resulting in lower costs. Download the new special report, courtesy of Dell EMC and Nvidia, to learn how HPC technology is being used for energy exploration, ranging from drilling and well completion to modeling oil-refining strategies.